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Gameloft has just launched a new game called Rival Knights on Android today. It's a free-to-play jousting simulator where players mount up in full medieval regalia, charge at their friends online or work their way through a single-player campaign, and try to smash opponents with a lance. Every round involves timing taps just as a cursor moves over the sweet spot in a target bar and dragging...

Event set for online retailers hometown of Seattle
Amazon's got a big ol' banner up on its home page inviting folks to its "new device unveiling." Click through, and you see a video of folks obviously looking at a phone or tablet. And marveling at how it moves them.
Sound familiar?

Our latest weekly photo contest has ended, and following a week of entries — roughly 70 in total — in the forums we've come down to picking out the winners. It's always tough to go through so many wonderful photos and pick just a couple to win prizes, but showing off your work with everyone else is part of the fun regardless of if you're one of the prize-winners in the end.

Oh, Google. You and your little tricks. Dunno how old this is (Update: Ah, since March or so. Cool.), but apparently there's a neat little trick to forcing your Google Play Store app to check for an update. No installing apk files from who knows where. No waiting like a peasant.
Just a couple taps of a button.
Are you ready? Here it is.

Over-the-air update files now available for multiple devices
Following the recent release of Android 4.4.3 for Nexus devices in factory image form, the first over-the-air updates have started rolling out this morning. So far we've confirmed it's rolling out for the Nexus 7 2013 (Wifi), Nexus 5 and Google Play editions of the Galaxy S4, HTC One M7 and HTC One M8. We'd expect more Nexus devices...

Though the international variant of the Sony Xperia Z was recently upgraded to Android 4.4.2 KitKat, those in the U.S. aren't as fortunate as T-Mobile has only finally gotten around to updating the waterproof handset to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. T-Mobile customers should begin getting their update notifications now. This brings the firmware build to 10.4.C.0.814 for the Xperia Z on T-Mobile.

The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) is announcing an expansion of its current Rezence wireless charging specification that will offer up to 50 watts of power in the future — allowing charging of multiple devices, including laptops and tablets, with a single charger. With upgrades to the base spec expected to be finalized by the end of 2014, A4WP will have Rezence capable of powering laptops...

If you're waiting for Motorola to roll out the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update for the Verizon Droid Ultra, Maxx, and Mini, don't hold your breath. Fortunately, there is a lot of good news as the latest batch of Motorola Droid-branded phones for Verizon will be skipping over to Android 4.4.3 instead, bringing it to the latest Android release that was recently made available for Google's Nexus line...

You'll still need to pay the entry fee, but we'll help get your foot in the door
The annual Google I/O developer conference is coming up in just three short weeks. We'll be there. Thousands of you will be there. It's going to be epic.
And Google has found room to squeeze in a few more. We've got 15 registration invite codes to give away. To be clear, these codes will not get you into Google I...

What you see above is a render of a Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet with surprisingly restrained branding from Verizon. The LTE variant of the 10-inch tablet with its wide bezels is apparently coming to Big Red later this year, according to evleaks.

Square Enix's hugely popular puzzle game, Hitman Go, snuck into Google Play today. Players control a piece representing Agent 47, an iconic character from their PC and console franchise Hitman. Players work their way around a board, turn by turn, to eventually take out their mark. Enemy patrols move after you move, and combined with special tiles for hiding and bonus objectives, you'll find...

Wake up to your favorite song every morning in a few simple steps
Waking up in a morning is a chore at the best of times, but waking up to some of your favorite music can make it, well, a little easier. On the Samsung Galaxy S5 you're able to add such songs to the stock alarm clock app with ease. You only need to know where to look.
So head on past the break and we'll show you how.

It's #MobileFit Month here at Mobile Nations, and that means we're looking at all of the best devices to get you fit and healthy. A big part of that group is of course, fitness trackers.
There are people who like to exercise and those who avoid exercise at all costs. The exercising group may be more willing to strap on a fitness tracker, however we'd argue that those who avoid exercise are the...

It was a few weeks ago that we first heard about the HTC One 'Remix' coming to Verizon, a supposed Verizon variant of the HTC One Mini 2. That render was drenched in bright blue, a surprising choice for a phone on Big Red. The new render from evleaks is quite a bit more reined in for its supposed 2014 debut

Motorola today has updated its Assist app with a new feature that lets you let go of your phone while you're at home. With the update, it'll learn where you live (doesn't look like it learns from Google Maps; I had to tell it manually) and then read incoming callers and texts aloud, so you don't have to have the phone in your pocket all the time, and you don't have to go scrambling for it....

Looking for an alternative to Clash of Clans? Android offers several fine multiplayer raiding games/clones to choose from, including Castle Clash, Galaxy Siege, Total Conquest, and more. But the Clash-like game that has won my heart is Cloud Raiders from Game Insight.
Cloud Raiders offers a lot of polish (though Clash is still smoother), including AI battles, clan support and chat, and a very...

Google Drive is currently experiencing some down time but at the moment Google has not commented on what the problem might be with its cloud storage service. The downtime was first reported over an hour ago and at the moment Google's own App Status Dashboard site shows that there is indeed a "service disruption". The site has a message on its Service Details page which says, "Affected users are...

Important permissions bundled into a primary group, with common permissions relegated to a secondary screen
Google is pushing out a new version of the Google Play Store app. The biggest change in recent versions (we're currently at 4.8.20) as we see it so far is that the permissions you see listed when you install an application have been scaled way back and are almost written in English....